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If You Like... Janet Evanovich... Try one of these authors!
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The sleeping beauty proposal
by Sarah Strohmeyer
Despairing of finding Mr. Right after years of tiresome dating, thirty-six-year-old Genie Michaels nevertheless falls for a best-selling author who proposes on national television to an anonymous other woman, a humiliating event after which Genie pretends to be the man's fiancée. By the author of The Cinderella Pact.
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Savannah blues
by Mary Kay Andrews
A delightful novel of divorce, revenge, and really great antiques follows Eloise "Weezie" Foley, an antiques picker, as she deals with a huge estate sale, eccentric relatives, a sexy ex-boyfriend, and her ex-husband and his new girlfriend, unexpectedly discovering that love is much better the second time around.
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Bobbie Faye's very (very, very, very) bad day
by Toni McGee Causey
When criminals kidnap her no-good brother, demanding her Contraband Queen tiara as ransom, Bobbie Faye Sumrall, self-described Louisiana Cajun trailer trash, takes on the police, organized crime, a sexy hostage, and a disgruntled former boyfriend to rescue her brother, keep custody of her niece, and get back in time to serve as Queen of the Lake Charles Contraband Festival.
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Swift justice
by Laura A. H. DiSilverio
Burdened by debt and an irate business associate when her silent partner flees the country, private eye Charlotte Swift continues her efforts on a case involving a baby left on a doorstep, an investigation that turns violent when the infant’s mother is murdered.
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Queens ransom : A Sofie Metropolis Novel
by Tori Carrington
Sofie Metropolis longs for a return to investigating mundane missing pet cases, but her Christmas wish does not come true as she takes a kidnapping case that puts her life at risk.
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Mr. Monk is miserable : a novel
by Lee Goldberg
Accompanying his long-suffering assistant Natalie on a side trip to France, detective Adrian Monk takes a tour through the historic underground world of the Parisian sewers, where he stumbles into a catacombs filled with ancient human remains, including one much more recent skull bearing evidence of murder. By the author of Mr. Monk Goes to Germany.
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Leader of the pack
by David Rosenfelt
Believing that a client whose case he lost nine years earlier is innocent, lawyer Andy Carpenter visits the man's aging uncle, who imparts knowledge about a dangerous, secret-ruled world where the key to Andy's client's freedom may be found.
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Calamity Jayne Goes to College
by Kathleen Bacus
Back in college for the fourth time, reporter Tressa Jayne Turner finds her quest for higher education thwarted by a new mystery, a campus criminal, a crazy roommate, a botched betrothal, and a hot guy who wants to save her from herself.
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Welcome to Temptation
by Jennifer Crusie
While helping her sister film a video in Temptation, Ohio, Sophie Dempsey encounters the town's handsome mayor, Phin Tucker, and the unlikely duo finds themselves drawn into a bizarre web of scandal, gossip, blackmail, adultery, and murder. By the author of Crazy for You.
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Malice in Maggody
by Joan Hess
As if a missing EPA official and escape prisoner aren't enough to keep Arly Hanks, the first woman chief of police in Maggody, Arkansas, busy, a body is found in a cheap motel and the townspeople are being unusually tight-lipped.
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